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It Won’t Be Long!
[PHOTO CREDIT: Thinkstock] It won’t be long until millions of sockeye salmon return to the Adams River and what a spectacular sight it will be! With 2014 being a dominant…
The 7th Annual White-nose Syndrome Workshop
[PHOTO CREDIT: KAREN VANDERWOLF] I just got back from the 7th annual White-nose syndrome (WNS) workshop held this year in St. Louis, Missouri. These meetings are important because there is…
What happens in late summer/early fall?
[PHOTO CREDIT: RICHARD ECKERT – CWF PHOTO CONTEST] Leaves changing colour and falling from trees, cooler weather, apples and harvest season may be some of the things you came up…
An Overview on White-nose Syndrome
[PHOTO CREDIT: KAREN VANDERWOLF/NB MUSEUM] I was recently asked to do a guest blog for the Nature Conservancy of Canada that I thought you might like to check out! It…
Update: Volunteers, Range Testing and Night Tracking
Our eel team is still busy wrapping up a great field season! Most recently, we’ve had the opportunity to have some of the Ottawa Riverkeeper Riverwatcher volunteers join us for…
We’re Learning More About The Fungus That Causes White-nose Syndrome!
[PHOTO: PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS DESTRUCTANS ISOLATES FOLLOWING 28 DAYS OF INCUBATION] I recently had a paper published in a scientific journal. We showed that isolates of Pseudogymnoascus destructans (the fungus that causes…
Eel Update – Trapping, Testing and a great big THANK YOU!
Holy smokes! Its mid-August! The summer has absolutely flown by and mornings out on the water are definitely a little bit more chilly than they were – but still gorgeous…
Results From This Past Winter’s WNS Surveillance Season Are Coming In
[PHOTO CREDIT: 2014 CANADIAN COOPERATIVE WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTRE] Results from this past winter’s surveillance season for white-nose syndrome on bats continue to flow in. WNS has continued to spread west,…
A Research Trip to Anticosti Island, Quebec
[PHOTO CREDIT: D.F MCALPINE/NB MUSEUM] I recently went on a research trip to Anticosti Island, Quebec to study the caves there. Our goal was to determine if the white-nose fungus,…
Will Three Bat Species Get The Protection They Need?
[PHOTO CREDIT: KAREN VANDERWOLF/NB MUSEUM] A publication has just been released looking for comments on adding three bat species – the little brown myotis, northern myotis and the tri-colored bat…